Running pyspark after pip install pyspark

Question

I wanted to install pyspark on my home machine. I did

pip install pyspark
pip install jupyter

Both seemed to work well.

But when I try to run pyspark I get

pyspark
Could not find valid SPARK_HOME while searching ['/home/user', '/home/user/.local/bin']

What should SPARK_HOME be set to?

Answer 1

I just faced the same issue, but it turned out that pip install pyspark downloads spark distirbution that works well in local mode. Pip just doesn't set appropriate SPARK_HOME. But when I set this manually, pyspark works like a charm (without downloading any additional packages).

$ pip3 install --user pyspark
Collecting pyspark
  Downloading pyspark-2.3.0.tar.gz (211.9MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 211.9MB 9.4kB/s 
Collecting py4j==0.10.6 (from pyspark)
  Downloading py4j-0.10.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (189kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 194kB 3.9MB/s 
Building wheels for collected packages: pyspark
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyspark ... done
  Stored in directory: /home/mario/.cache/pip/wheels/4f/39/ba/b4cb0280c568ed31b63dcfa0c6275f2ffe225eeff95ba198d6
Successfully built pyspark
Installing collected packages: py4j, pyspark
Successfully installed py4j-0.10.6 pyspark-2.3.0

$ PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 SPARK_HOME=~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pyspark pyspark
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
2018-03-31 14:02:39 WARN  NativeCodeLoader:62 - Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Setting default log level to "WARN".
To adjust logging level use sc.setLogLevel(newLevel). For SparkR, use setLogLevel(newLevel).
Welcome to
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Using Python version 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017 16:37:01)
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